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In one of our recent Essays and Yarns, the suggestion was made that some people are living under a rock. As it turns out, the space under the rock has company.

Us.

While wandering into the local Drug Store looking for a new comb, walking down the ladies isle was spotted one of the most amazing product designs ever seen. The Nicki Minaj Pink Friday Parfum. It is evident that there are things going on in the world that have completely escaped our understanding.

Just to be clear on this, the bottle design is absolutely captivating. Who would have thought that a bottle with a gold head covered in Pink hair on top of a brassiere and transparent torso filled with fragrant liquid would be anything but awkward?

We love it. As a matter of fact, we wish we had a bust of Mr. Swift that was an equally compelling product to put on a shelf somewhere.

Perhaps we’ll start working on one.

Have you heard of ‘Cosplay’? Cosplay is a very popular pastime enjoyed by many people around the world. In a nutshell, Cosplay involves dressing up to look like your favorite Comic, Anime, Manga character – the name combines the words ‘Costume’ and ‘Play’ – Cosplay.

Behold the photograph accompanying our text. At first glance, one might think that this is a vintage picture of a hapless explorer or company scout sometime in the 1800’s. But look a little more closely, and the whole scene begins to unwind.

It turns out this an early example of Cosplay, a picture of J.A. Molloy, Artist, masquerading as a Lewis & Clark explorer type, photographed by Paul Shambroom.

Mr. Molloy had in the previous year (1990) produced a mountain of Journal art, wood and linoleum cuts, steel engravings and various historical reproductions of American Indian artifacts. All for the filming of ‘The Song of Sacajawea.’ A children’s storybook classic video produced by Rabbit Ears Productions, with narration by Laura Dern along with music by David Lindley. Throughout the endeavor, the project got the better of him, and he slowly morphed into the form of the fellow in the picture. Indeed he is as we have coined him the ‘Cosplay Pioneer.’